Google-Chrome

[syampillai]

@markcynt

Tried Chromium today for a few hours.

It was painfully slow.

Just like all the other times I gave Chrome a shot it didn’t last too long on my computer.

Don’t understand the hype at all.

Maybe it will be okay in a few years.

First time I am hearing about Chrome being slow. There must be something wrong with your set up.
In my case, it beats all the other browsers I have.

[markcynt]

@syampillai

First time I am hearing about Chrome being slow. There must be something wrong with your set up.
In my case, it beats all the other browsers I have.

There’s nothing wrong with my setup.

FF is very fast compared to Chromium.

@Prexy

Chrome is like a rocket. Did you get it from the Contrib repo?

I got it from the Contrib repo.

@Knurpht

I’ve been using it ever since betas appeared. Like it, it’s fast, IMHO does not beat Opera and FF, since it hangs on some sites (and next time it doesn’t but hangs on sites it displayed well the first time). During browsing there’s always a moment that I fall back to Opera.

My problem is more like Knurpht’s.

[ken_yap]

Hanging on some sites probably means there is something wrong with your Chromium setup, not necessarily of your doing, and perhaps due to some interaction of the code with your environment. For me it’s fast for the vast majority of pages, and when it fails, it goes Aw, snap! quickly. I’ve used it on a netbook with only a 900 MHz CPU and the speed was appreciated there. So your experiences are not typical.

[markcynt]

@ken_yap

Hanging on some sites probably means there is something wrong with your Chromium setup, not necessarily of your doing, and perhaps due to some interaction of the code with your environment. For me it’s fast for the vast majority of pages, and when it fails, it goes Aw, snap! quickly. I’ve used it on a netbook with only a 900 MHz CPU and the speed was appreciated there. So your experiences are not typical.

Maybe so but Chrome has never worked right for me in any environment.

FF works well for me no matter what the environment.

I keep trying Chrome and each time I am more unimpressed than the last.

[Wilson_Phillips]

I have not tried Chrome yet. I do love my Firefox, because I run NoScript and Adblock Plus. My guess is that Google will never let us block ads, being that ads are their bread and butter. Are there extensions/add-ins to allow me to block ads and scripts for security? If so, I might give it a shot.

[Havoc65]

@Wilson_Phillips

I have not tried Chrome yet. I do love my Firefox, because I run NoScript and Adblock Plus. My guess is that Google will never let us block ads, being that ads are their bread and butter. Are there extensions/add-ins to allow me to block ads and scripts for security? If so, I might give it a shot.

if im not mistaken it uses your firefox extensions now and im sure somebody will chime in if that isn’t the case and im using the chromium from the repos

[malcolmlewis]

@Havoc65

Wilson_Phillips;2077892 Wrote:
> I have not tried Chrome yet. I do love my Firefox, because I run
> NoScript and Adblock Plus. My guess is that Google will never let us
> block ads, being that ads are their bread and butter. Are there
> extensions/add-ins to allow me to block ads and scripts for security?
> If so, I might give it a shot.
if im not mistaken it uses your firefox extensions now and im sure
somebody will chime in if that isn’t the case and im using the chromium
from the repos

Hi
Adsweep will block them.
http://adsweep.org/

Just download, then drag and drop on an open chrome session and it will
ask you what to do, select save and install.

You can see the installed extensions via the menu with a spanner.

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[danorske]

I would appreciate it if some of you Chromium users on Linux would try this web site.“www.rv.net” go through a couple of pages. It’s dreadfully slow.

I think its got something to do with M$ bogging down Linux.

Thanks,
Ron

[malcolmlewis]

@danorske

I would appreciate it if some of you Chromium users on Linux would try
this web site.“www.rv.net” go through a couple of pages. It’s dreadfully
slow.

I think its got something to do with M$ bogging down Linux.

Thanks,
Ron

Hi
No, think it’s just the amount of images and flash needed to
download as well as the site that’s hosting looks to me like it’s only
256K upload speed from the site…

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[danorske]

@malcolmlewis

Hi
No, think it’s just the amount of images and flash needed to
download as well as the site that’s hosting looks to me like it’s only
256K upload speed from the site…

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Thanks, When I use my windows box it’s lightning fast.
Ron

[malcolmlewis]

@danorske

malcolmlewis;2078238 Wrote:
> Hi
> No, think it’s just the amount of images and flash needed to
> download as well as the site that’s hosting looks to me like it’s only
> 256K upload speed from the site…
>
> –

Thanks, When I use my windows box it’s lightning fast.
Ron

Hi
Just tried it on Windows 7, yes the images came in ok, except the swf
file which didn’t even load on IE8…

Ran the site through the w3c validator, 267 errors and 38 warnings…
guess chrome is fussy…??

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[malcolmlewis]

@malcolmlewis

@danorske

malcolmlewis;2078238 Wrote:
> Hi
> No, think it’s just the amount of images and flash needed to
> download as well as the site that’s hosting looks to me like it’s only
> 256K upload speed from the site…
>
> –

Thanks, When I use my windows box it’s lightning fast.
Ron

Hi
Just tried it on Windows 7, yes the images came in ok, except the swf
file which didn’t even load on IE8…

Ran the site through the w3c validator, 267 errors and 38 warnings…
guess chrome is fussy…??

Hi
Seemed a bit faster if I switch agents (I guess some stuff cached)

chromium --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT
6.1)"

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[syampillai]

@danorske

I would appreciate it if some of you Chromium users on Linux would try this web site.“www.rv.net” go through a couple of pages. It’s dreadfully slow.

I think its got something to do with M$ bogging down Linux.

Thanks,
Ron

I just tried this site and it got loaded instantly by Chromium.

[RigorMortis]

Installed it and tried now. The ‘send anonymous data to google’ thingie isn’t there, which feels good. However, the stability at this point one could discuss

[Siminin]

@RigorMortis

Installed it and tried now. The ‘send anonymous data to google’ thingie isn’t there, which feels good. However, the stability at this point one could discuss

I could discuss it. I haven’t had one crash with it and i use it a lot since it’s my main browser. It doesn’t feel like development release.

[microchip8]

Seems like Dell is getting into it http://www.osnews.com/story/22546/Dell_Releases_Experimental_Unsupported_Chrome_OS_Image

[RigorMortis]

@Siminin

I could discuss it. I haven’t had one crash with it and i use it a lot since it’s my main browser. It doesn’t feel like development release.

I had my first crash after approximately 5 seconds of use. However, I noticed there were a lot of different packages in the OBS. Which one are you using?

[Siminin]

I’m using the one from Contrib, currently 4.0.260.0. But have used it long time, before it was in Contrib. I’ve been using it on oS 11.1 and 11.2 and on KDE and Gnome. No crash for now;)

[RigorMortis]

@Siminin

I’m using the one from Contrib, currently 4.0.260.0. But have used it long time, before it was in Contrib. I’ve been using it on oS 11.1 and 11.2 and on KDE and Gnome. No crash for now;)

I reinstalled with this package. Seems like the crashes have stopped… So far

[mmarif4u]

I am using the Contrib repo, and it never crashes till to date.